The Billionaire’s Fight For Redemption (Noah and Sierra) novel Chapter 280

“You don’t have to,” Sierra says. “You can just leave.”

I study her, half-expecting spite or irritation, but there’s nothing there. Her eyes are calm and clear.

“I already told you I’m not leaving, Sierra,” I say. “Not until Lilly gets here.”

She frowns. “Look, I’m grateful you found me and had me checked, but I really don’t want you here.”

Searching her eyes, I know it for sure. She isn’t just being stubborn about this. She means it.

My mind scrambles for something to keep me here. An excuse I can use because this is the closest she’s let me in for months.

“You have a text,” I blurt out.

Her frown deepens, eyes narrowing. “You went through my phone?”

“No,” I say quickly. “It came in after I picked it up off the floor.”

She doesn’t argue. She reaches for the phone, and I see the exact moment her face lights up. It happens the second she unlocks it and reads the message.

I didn’t mean to see it, but earlier, when I checked whether the notification was from Lilly, I caught it.

I didn’t have to guess much. It’s obviously from the guy she’s seeing, considering she’s saved as Dree, decorated with a smiley face and a red heart.

Fuck! Just remembering the message makes my heart tighten so hard, it makes it difficult to breathe.

Morning, my beautiful girlfriend. How are you today?

If I wanted confirmation that she does have a boyfriend, that message is it. If I needed more, the wide smile stretching across her lips right now seals it.

It’s like her whole world just brightened. The exhaustion and shadows clinging to her minutes are completely gone, as if his words alone completely erased them.

I hate to admit it, but it wrecks me because he lights her up in a way I haven’t seen in a long time and that realization guts me to fucking pieces.

My chest constricts as I watch her, as I see how alive her eyes look. She used to smile like that only for me.

There was a time when I was the only one who could light her eyes like that, but that was a long time ago and knowing another man is doing what only I could feels like a punch straight to the gut.

I draw in a slow breath, trying to push down the ache sitting heavy in my stomach but it’s fucking useless.

She finally lowers her phone, the smile still lingering, the happiness still unmistakably there.

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